Jordan has increased the price paid to farmers for local wheat to $635/MT in the hope of increasing local production, while import quality wheat can be purchased for less than $300/MT. According to local traders, wheat imports have caused domestic plantings to decline by 90 percent.
News Updates The London-based Grain and Feed Trade Association (Gafta) has announced the names of several businesses that have failed to comply with arbitration awards in accordance with Gafta Form 125. Included were the following regional firms: Akel Tekstil Sanayi ve Ticaret (Istanbul, Turkey), Societe NYM SARL (Cotonou, Benin), Societe WNU International SARL (Cotonou, Benin) and Freedom Sky General Trading (Dubai, UAE).Under its Export Credi...
A microlith is a small stone tool usually made of flint or chert and typically several centimeters in length and half a centimetre wide. They were made by humans from at least the Upper Paleolithic, across Africa, Europe, Asia and Australia. The microliths were used in spear points and arrowhea...
Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve Kiwengwa/Pongwe Forest Reserve is located on the northeast coast of Unguja, 20 kilometres (12 mi) from the Town. The reserve is an important biodiversity spot in the coral rag zone. The forest reserve is rich both in faunal and floral species. The faunal species r...
Fabiana is a genus of flowering plants in the nightshade family, native to dry slopes in western South America.[1] They are evergreen shrubs or subshrubs,[1] with needle-like leaves and profuse tiny tubular flowers in summer. The common name is false heath because the leaves superficially resem...
An Ankylosaurus lumbers along the shore of what’s now eastern Montana. Walking low to the ground, the dino uses its flat, leaf-shaped teeth to tear at ferns lining the water. Suddenly, a shadow looms over the herbivore—a Tyrannosaurus rex is hungry. But Ankylosaurus won’t be a...
